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Patented Sept. 30,1919.

3 SHEETS-SHEET l- R. J. HODGL WIRE CUTTER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 27. 1919.

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R. J. HODGE.

WIRE CUTTER.

APPLICATION HLED JUNE 21. 1919.

1,317,444. PatentedSept. 30, 1919.

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R. 1. HOUSE.

WIRE CUTTER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 21; I919. 1 ,3 1 7,444. Patented Sept. 30, 1919.

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UNITED STATES PATENT onnicn. Q

ROBERT J. HODG-E, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICAN BUCKLE CO., 0]? WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, .A CORPORATION.

WIRE-CUTTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept.'30, 1919.

Application filed June 27, 1919. Serial No. 307,095.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT J. Hones, a citizen of the United States, residing at West Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Wire-Cutters; and I do hereby declare the followmg, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact-description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent, in

Figure 1 a top or plan view of a wire cutter constructed in accordance with my invention. V I V V Fig, 2 a side View of the same.

Fig. 3 an end view thereof.

Fig. 1 a plan view of the bed-block with the top removed. n

Fig. 5 a side view of the same.

Fig. 6 anend view.

Fig. 7 a plan view of vthe top plate detached.

Fig. 8 an end view of the same.

Fig. 9 a plan view of the plunger detach'ed.

Fig, 10 a side view of the same.

Fig. 11 an end view of the same.

Fig. 12 a side view of the stripper, detached.

Fig. 13 an end view of the same.

Fig. 14: a side view of the stripper spring detached.

Fig. 15 an end view of the same.

Fig. 16 a side view showing a portion of the wire with two outs producing a piece with reversely beveled ends.

Fig. 17 a plan view of the same.

Fig. 18 shows one of the chips removed.

F ig. 19 is a plan view of a buckle having its double pointed wire lever cut in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 20 a side view of the same.

Fig. 21 a side view of the tongue, detached.

This invention relates to an improvement in wire cutters particularly adapted for use in connection with wirebending machines. In some cases, and particularly for buckles for overalls and suspenders in which the lever includes two prongs, in the usual manner of cutting the wire one of the prongs is beveled in one direction, and the other In carrying out my invention I employ a bed-block 25 which is secured tothe machine frame of an ordinary wire-bending machine in position between the straightening mechanism, if any is employed, and the bending mechanism of whatever form it may be. Preferably the 1 under face is formed with a longitudinal rib 26- to fit in a groove formed for it in the bed of the machinegvhereby the device may be firmly held in proper alinement. Secured to the block 25 is a top plate 27 .which is secured thereto by bolts 28 and 29, being also held in place by a dowelpin 30.depending.from its under face and entering a hole 31 formed for it in the bed block. The top plate 27 is also formed with an alinement rib 32 entering a groove 33 formed for it in the upper face of the bed-block. The top plate is formed at one side with a cutter arm 3a the under or cutting faces 35 and 36 of which are reversely beveled and sharpened so as to form a flattened V shaped cutter the point 37 of which extends down closely to the upper face of the bed block 25. The bedblock is formed with a channel 38 in which a horizontal movable plunger 39 is arranged, this plunger being adapted to be moved back and forth by an arm 40 of a swinging block 41 which may be operated by any suitable means so as to move the plunger back and forth. The plunger is formed in its upper face with a flattened V-shaped channel, the faces 4:2 and 43 of which conform with the edges 35 and 36 of the cutter. Near the end of the plunger is a transverse groove 44: to receive the wire 45 which is to be fed to the bending mechanism. As herein shown, the groove is formed by the application to the end of the plunger of a block 16 held in place by a screw 4L7 and dowel pin 48. The plunger is held in position by the edge 49 of the top plate overlap ing the edge of the groove 38, thus forming a partly housed guideway for theipliingr. The lunger" is placed in,

the groove 38 and the top plate 27 secured in pla-ce It may here-Joe noted thatuthe pl'zit'es' am 27 pzilfe forified with 'elined notches 5O and SItlii'ougli whichzfb oltin'ziv extend for further connecting the device'to' the machine bed.

,The Wireto be cut enters a ide groove- 52 femur for it iii the hed blocliend passes through the notch 44: inthe plunger-165 which it is advanced to the cutting edges 3*5f2iiitl 36 .v'vhich' l til Iio-v' a" Wedg shaped chipi 58- als shown iii-Fig; ;l8, tlius"cutting wire andicnfiing d ie end 54 withbevel iii one direction zind the end 55 vvitl bevel stripper sepivated one-screw 57 atriolnor extent'andaiiothei' chipieiiioved, thus farm.

mall'y' pr'e'ssd down Weird aqjra ss the pliiii gei by means or spring 58" which is" secured to the top plate" 2:7 bymans of sci-W959 The Wife is then fed forward to 'fapiedetei inincl ing elength of wife eoiw th r'xkise1y' e; e1d ends'54and55 the length" of wire being their'feid we 'foiniing mechanism and if c it for; al bucklei thepiids" 61- Will be inclinedj in the" Seine directionie-gem theirv Beveled surfaces; against the fece 62 of a buckle frame 63 of usual construction. 31 1 3? nil L m1 1 1 ii IL A vvire cutter comprising a bed-block forlned'ivith a plungergroove, a top plate secured to the bed-block and extending over the plunger groove, a plunger movable 1n seidplunger groove, said top plate formed With a Wedge-shaped cutter, the plunger formed with corresponding groove and adapted to force a, piece of Wire across said cutter, and means forliiiovi'iig'sitid plunger,

Qj'ivire comprising he'd-block fornied vv'ithizf plungig'roovdn top plate sec red: to said "Bed-block and "proj ectiiig oversiziid plunger groove; a plun er mov ing said top 'plttte' formed vv ith a! Wetlg shaped v cutter; the pliuigerdofnied groove-end adapted to} supp m: a my rnove itecross f sa icl' cutterg e stripper securedtofthetop plate end re'sting upon 7 the plunger, and e spring- 'n'ommny pressing the stripperngeinstplunger. I

Intestim'ony' whereof, liheve signed this specification in theprscnce of tv'vo subscrih- 7 

